It’s finally time to continue with the “CCK Goes to College” story.
As I wrote in Chocolate Covered Katie’s College Story: Part One, it was definitely a good choice to cut my losses and transfer schools; a bigger university with more class options was a much better fit for me. Right away, I made a lot of new friends and even joined a sorority for a year.
Questions of the Day:
Are you in college? High school? Done with school? And if you did go to college, how did you decide on your major? Did you ever change majors or transfer schools? And did you enjoy your school experience?
Yikes, that’s a lot of questions. Don’t feel like you have to answer every single one.
Unlike college, blogging isn’t a grade!
I suffered through 2 years of University, after 2 years of college (our schools are different across the pond!) , before finally admitting just before the start of my 3rd year that it really wasn’t for me! The people were lovely, but the course was turning me into a wreck! During the break between the 2nd and 3rd year, i started up my own crafty business which really started to take off, so it made faaaar more sense to carry on doing something i love, which was doing well! Rather than force myself to do something i hated just because i felt like i should! Another girl who finished the same art course i was on the year before, is now working calling numbers at a Bingo hall.. so graduating is by no means a gauruntee of a job in your field of study!
Life is faaar too short, so make sure you only do what ever it is that makes you happy!
And eat some chocolate along the way 😉
xx
Travel. Do BUNAC or similar. Enjoy it! I went to college straight from high school (as planned), and graduated in 4 years (as planned). During my last semester, I had a bit of a freakout – no job lined up, no graduate school lined up, no husband lined up (the choices most of my friends were making) – so I decided to go overseas for 6 months as I’d not done a year abroad during college.
Best decision of my life.
Having lived and worked in Scotland, the US, and Australia, I have lived in New Zealand for 8 years and, while I miss my family terribly, consider this to be home. I’m not suggesting everyone needs to emigrate, but if you’re at loose ends when you graduate (secret surprise notwithstanding), take a year to see the world as an adult (I know you’ve lived all over, but on your own it’s entirely different) and see where life takes you.
Good luck!
I’ve been thinking about going back to school… but I’m not sure what I want to do yet. I have an A.S. in Multimedia/Web Authoring, and transferred after graduating to a university. I was going to major in Creative Writing, but it was too expensive, so I dropped out after the first day of class. Then, I transferred to the same university again, to double major in Elementary Education and Creative Writing, but I ended up getting too stressed out and too sick — flareup — so I dropped out halfway through the semester. I keep thinking about going back to school for something else, but I don’t know what for, and until I decide, I’m not spending that much money again; I’m still paying off my student loans from that half semester. Sigh.
Thanks for sharing your college experience. I hate admitting to people that I dropped out. I don’t know why. I guess it’s a sense of failure. These days, I’m looking for a part-time job so that I can focus more of my time on writing and on Freaking Bookworm. That’s my dream — for now. (:
So are you graduated now?
I can’t believe I’m just now reading your college story! Really because I went to SMU too!…and I know some of the girls in your photos! Too funny! I love your blog and I never knew!
I just recently found your blog and LOVE IT!!!… and now I’m hoping I’m not your oldest reader! I actually started my adult life a bit backwards. I made some foolish decisions as a teenager.. foolish being the understatement. By the time I was 21 I was divorced and truely a single parent to two precious little boys. Some how I’d been okay w/mucking up my future, but I couldn’t muck up theirs. I entered college when my boys were 1 and 2 years old. That didn’t seem courageous at the time… it just seemed “necessary”. I look back now and wish I was still as determined as that young girl w/two boys to raise. I decided on a major based on the very first criteria: I have to be able to support these two boys and provide for them. It was all about their futures, as it should have been. After that was decided then I made a decision I could live with; for it wasn’t about me. Today those two boys are in a great University… I DIDN’T MUCK THEM UP!! (… well, not too much). But, now I realize that at 40, I can make choices for me… and honestly, that scares me. My youngest is in his 3rd year and I still haven’t figured out how to do what I really want to do and if it’s even reasonable to start over now. Fear is my F word. I can say this: my boys are amazing. (I have indepedent proof 🙂 ) I already know they are good men and will be great husbands and fathers. So I don’t regret the decisions that I did make… just time to make a new one… and I really appreciate your inspiration!
Wow, Vicki, you are seriously inspiring! Honestly (and this is going to sound a little silly), I sometimes worry about messing up my future kids… even though I don’t even have any yet! But whenever I hear stories on the news or in magazines or whatever about someone who does something AWFUL, my first thought is about the poor parents who have to feel guilty by association, always thinking “How could I have raised him/her differently?”
I think it’s always reasonable to start something new! My mom went from a stay-at-home mom to a full-time teacher well after she turned forty… it’s definitely never too late to find your passion!! 🙂
Ohh the story about my major, haha. I think most college students have at least some ‘splainin’ to do about their major. When I was in HS everyone said “major in what you’re good at”. Well I thought about it, and I was good at a couple things (English, biology, history, etc) but I realized the thing that I was best at (and the thing I enjoyed the most with it not being a super common skill) was French. I picked up the language well, enjoyed the class despite a really mean teacher, and just generally did well with it grade wise. So I went to college as a French major, figuring I would scope out the biology/microbiology/immunology classes once I got my feet wet a little (was too chicken to go in as a full fledged science major, haha).
After 1 semester of general chemistry I realized science was more studying than I wanted and it wasn’t what I was naturally very good at (unlike French) so I switched to just French. Then I realized it wasn’t marketable and switched to French education, which I loved, but then the whole family emergency thing happened, my GPA fell, and I wasn’t accepted into the program.
After this I was lost. I thought about doing French and then teaching English as a second language as minor, but very soon became fed up with French and the French department. I also couldn’t afford to go abroad and therefore wasn’t doing as well in these classes as my peers and was becoming discouraged. I then realized that, even though it was my senior year, I needed to change my major. So I am now communication arts and sciences, which was basically the major that needed the least amount of credits to graduate. I am focusing in rhetoric and group communication though, which are skills that will help me in my future. I also have taken many classes in French, linguistics, and applied linguistics and know that I have a lot of interest in those subjects research wise (although I learned that I didn’t really enjoy teaching, especially not English). Learning what you don’t like as well as what you do is very important at this juncture, I think. And now I feel pretty certain of what I want to do next career wise, which has definitely motivated me to do my best school wise. Sorry for the novel, btw! Too many changes of mind!
I am going to try your recipe out! I just was given your blog!
Wow! You are amazing! How did you start getting into this?
Did you make these recipes up yourself??
Amazing!
I am 28 and just started to go for my teaching degree now. By trade, I have my Red Seal Journeymans in Cosmetology.
Last year the market was slow and I started to Vollunteer with the School and that is how I got into it! I love it, the sutdents and the they seem to listen to me as well which helps!
We just got back from the Long BEach Hair show:)
Take care you healthy gorgeous lady!
Jesika
I actually started it as just a hobby… I think I had about 5 readers lol.
Yes, I make up all the recipes from scratch (unless otherwise noted… I get some ideas from magazines or cookbooks, but I’m incapable of following a recipe!)
Wow! You are sooo amazing! Thanks for getting back to me! You soo rock! Keep it up:)
PS I made the cookie dough yesterday with stevia packets. I froze it for while so it would harded in texture and my husband and I absolutely LOVE it!
Thanks!
Jesika
Your blog is such an inspiration to me. I too am in college and struggling to figure out what to do with my life. I am a journalism major but I can’t help but notice that I feel happiest when I am in the kitchen. Even if I mess everything up (which happens a lot), it still makes me so happy. I graduate in a year and your blog just makes me think that I can do whatever I want. That I don’t have to live a certain way. Thank you for all you do! Your recipes are beyond delicious!